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Accreditation Criteria

Your organization’s status and term as an accredited provider of continuing education for the healthcare team is based on demonstrated compliance with these criteria, effective October 1, 2013:

Mission & Overall Program Improvements

Activity Planning & Evaluation

Mission & Overall Improvement

A provider:

Articulates a continuing education (CE) mission statement that highlights education for the healthcare team. Expected results are specified in terms of changes in skills/strategy or performance of the healthcare team or in patient outcomes. (Criterion 1)

Gathers data or information and conducts a program-based analysis of the degree to which its CE mission is met through the conduct of CE activities/educational interventions. (Criterion 2)

The provider identifies, plans, and implements the needed or desired changes in the overall program (e.g., planners, teachers, infrastructure, methods, resources, facilities, interventions) required to improve its ability to meet the CE mission. (Criterion 3)

Activity Planning & Evaluation

A provider:

Incorporates into CE activities the educational needs (knowledge, skills/strategy, or performance) that underlie the practice gaps of the healthcare team and/or the individual members of the healthcare team. (Criterion 4)

Generates activities/educational interventions designed to change the skills/strategy or performance of the healthcare team or patient outcomes as described in its mission statement. (Criterion 5)

Generates activities/educational interventions around valid content that matches the healthcare team’s current or potential scope of professional activities. (Criterion 6)

Chooses educational formats for activities/interventions appropriate for the setting, objectives, and desired results of the activity. (Criterion 7)

Develops activities/educational interventions in the context of desirable attributes of the healthcare team (e.g., Institute of Medicine competencies, professional competencies, healthcare team competencies: values/ethics, roles and responsibilities, interprofessional communication, teams, and teamwork[1]). (Criterion 8)